Button-buckle for garments



C. A. MARTIN. BUTTON BUCKLE FOR GARMENTS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1a. 1911.

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Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

UnirEn STATES CLARA ALTA MARTIN, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

BUTTON-BUGKLE FOR GARMENTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

Application filed September 13, 1917. Serial No. 191,490.

To all whom it may concern.

it known that I, CLARA ALTA MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 882 North Euclid street, in the city of Pasadena, county of Los ringeles, and State of California, have invented a new and useful Button-Buckle for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide improvements in cliiloren s garments and the like whereby the garments may be laundried vithout likelihood of breaking buttons or of causing rust upon the garment, and in this respect the invention comprises a novel fastening device which 1 term a button buckle that is adapted to eliminate the danger of rusting the garments by metallic fasteners or of impairing the garment by the breakage of buttons.

The invention includes the novel clasp and the novel parts and combinations of parts that go to make up the same.

An object of the invention is to provide for a garment a fastener adapted to be made of vegetable ivory or the like without likelihood of breakage during the usual laundrying operations and without likelihood of being pulled off by the child.

An object is to do away with button holes and provide fastening means not likely to become unfastened.

An object of the invention. is to make it practicable to combine in a most convenient and acceptable manner flexible elements of a garment with the specific fastener which I have invented.

The invention may be variously constructed and I do not limit it strictly to a certain form, but shall show and describe it herein in such form as I at present deem most desirable and elfective.

Further objects, advantages and features of novelty may appear from the accompanying drawings, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention in the form I at present deem best, and the method of applying and using the same in connection with a garment.

Figure l is a front elevation of a garment provided with a button buckle constructed in accordance with this invention, the flap strap ends being unfastened.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the garment flap 9.

shown in Fig. 1 as it appears when the button buckle is fastened.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the garment and with flap unfastened provided with the fastener and partly let down. The front is broken to show the termination of the front lap.

Fig. i is a view of the inner face of the housing member of one of the button buckles.

Fig. 5 is a view of both members, the housing member being in edge elevation and inserted into the elliptical orifice of the link.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmental mid-sectional view showing the button buckle fastened and fragments of the strap ends connected thereto for fastening together the upper corners of the laps.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the button buckle with fragments of the flap strap ends connected thereto in the operation of connecting or oisconnecting the same.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view analogous to Fig. 6 showing the parts of the button buckle separated.

The invention is applicable to various situations and will be understood as shown in combination with a union garment comprising legs 1, 2, and a body portion having above the level of the crotch 3, an open top front formed by laps 4., 5, terminating at the collar 6 and also having an open bottom and closed top back formed of the top back piece 7 terminating at its bottom in an inner skirt 8, and also comprising back flap 9 adapted to cover the skirt 8; and, cons quently to close the back opening 10 of loops 11 in front of and above the level of the top of the skirt 8; a pair of strap ends l2, 13 at the free corners of the front laps; a pair of strap ends 14, 15 at the free corners of the The button buckle 16 is adapted to connect the members of the pair of strap ends at the corners of the laps; the button buc rle 17 is adapted to connect the members of the pair of flap strap ends lei, l5.

Said button buckles consist respectively two pieces that are separable, one of pieces being a link 18, to one limb 19, of which a strap end is fastened, and the other being a shell or housing 20 having a closed front 21, and a flat back provided with openings 22 therein, and a smooth edge 23 between said front and said back, the openings 22 being separated by a bar 24 to which another strap end is fastened within the housing; said housing being adapted to pass through'the link endwise.

The surface of the back or open side ofthe oblong housing is formed of the concave,

face 25, the rim 26 surrounding the concavity, which extends from side limb to side limb of the rim, and the flat face 27" of the bar 24 crosses from end to end of the rim.

1 The closed side 21 of the housing is concave and practically conforms to the llnk orifice free to accommodate the strap end as the housing passes through.

The button buckle members are carved or cut into'form out of suitably-sized pieces of vegetable ivory or thelike.

By reason of their shape and construction the button buckles readily pass through the laundry apparatus including boilers and washers, without injury, and they are easily attached to and detached from thestrap ends which are simply lapped around the bar or limb that is to hold them, and are stitched in place. r j

Such fastening is positively secure, as the housing 20 by its shape is prevented from passing through the link 18 when the back of the housing is in a plane oblique to the major axis of the opening 28 in the link, and is easily made owing to the length of the lap clear across the strap end, and yet is easy to rip off whenever it'is desired to remove the button buckle from the strap ends.

I claim: V 1. The new article of manufacture set forth, to wit, a button buckle: the same consisting of two pieces that are separable; one of said pieces being a link, to one limb of which a strap-end may be fastened, and the other being a housing having a closed front and an open flat back and an edge between said front and said back, and having a passage with two openings; and a bar, to which bar another strap end may be fastened within the housing, said bar separating the openings and being in the same plane as the back of the housing; said housing being adapted to passthrough the link endwise but not sidewise or when the back of the housing is in a plane oblique to the longitudinal axis of the link. 7 i v 2. A button buckle comprising a link haring an elliptical opening, and a housing having a closed front and a fiat back provided with openings thereiniseparated bya bar which is in the same plane as the back and to which bar a strap end may be 'fastened within the housing, there being an edge and also a space between said front and said back; and said housing being adapted to be passed through said elliptical opening endwise through which it cannot be passed sidewise or when the back is in a plane oblique to the major axis of the opening.

3. The two-piece button buckle set forth comprising a shell'having a rim and a'flat back provided with a bar in the same plane as the back,- and a concavity extending from opposite limbs of the rim underneath the bar and adapted'to receive thefastening element; and an oblong. link having an orifice "rherethrough of. sufficient width and length to allow the. shell and its fastening means to be passed through said orifice endwise and to I prevent the shell from passing through the orifice when the back of the shell is in a plane oblique to the longitudinal axis of'theorifice.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set 'my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 4th day of September, 1917. 7

7 CLARA ALTA MARTIN. Witness: 9

JAMES R. -TOWNSEND. 

